Watched Fightclub ( Brad Pitt starring) today and probably was thinking how the situation of a man can go worse when in depression. A state of hallucination prevails in the mind of Edward Norton throughout the movie till he understands what he really had done. Edward suffers from insomnia in the movie which leads him into the hallucination stage. The movie reminds me of another such movie the Russell Crowe starrer-A beautiful mind where in Russell plays the role of affected scientist. One thing about both these characters is their strength of the imagination which probably them through. The fact remains that mind is absolutely the master of body and probably universe. Man's heart defines how his mind should act and probably a well knit coordinated effort between the two leads to an effective result.In both the above cases one part dominates the other( heart dictates mind).Now coming to the topic about my state of mind, a sense of manthan is also going on. Sometimes I feel the heart dominates the mind while others I feel the other way round. i hope I dont land up in some characters' identity.
The time of Corona has brought in it the lockdown. Lockdown is the state of affairs when the whole world comes to stand still. Any change would carry with it the innate quality of inviting criticism both for and against it . Lockdown is no different. There may be people who are favouring lockdown while as there is a subset of our population which are against it too. My analysis is it happened for our good and we all need to bear this adventure. The best part of lockdown for me has been that the public broadcasting of the two mythological epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. Both these epics represent the ethos of Indian civilisation and how the Indian civilisation has evolved over the time. While the positives of the epics circulate through the veins and arteries of the nation, one aspect has been showing the ladies as sheer objectification. The epics have given a great moral to us which invokes us to respect the women folk. These epics are really significant in the current d...
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